Whether you only dabble in electronics as a hobby or it’s your full-time job, there are few tools as indispensable as the multimeter. In fact, we’d be willing to bet nearly everyone rea… ...

Someone made a scratch near one end of the bar, then made a scratch near the other, and the distances between the scratches became, from then on, 1.000000… meter, to as many decimal places as ...

WELCOME to the bar where it’s acceptable to wear a bikini — the Gold Coast’s world-famous bikini-clad Meter Maids are opening their own bar and restaurant on the Glitter Strip.

The newfangled meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the earth’s equator and the North Pole, but difficulties of measurement made the exact length hard to determine.